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Experience a story. Tell a story. Picture a story.

On zimmertwins.com you create your own endings to one of our story starters. You may also create your stories from scratch. So put on your director's hat and you might just be our next featured movie maker!

Introducing a series of videos designed to act as springboards for story telling. Made for primary education, but easily adapted for us.

Listen to short stories, most less than 10 minutes, most American English.

Improve your listening skills and hear about the news. Listen-and-write.com is free listening practice.

Listen to a story/news item etc, and write what you hear. Stories are organised by level. There is something weird about how it deals with punctuation, so do have a go first yourself.

Short stories with quizzes. 

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format.

Set of short videos, people talking about events that changed their lives. Transcripts for all

Smories are free original stories for kids, read by kids. 50 added every month.

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format.

Lots of black and white images of people/streets etc. Nice for speculating or story-telling.

Tons of stories and videos on the Festivals

Interesting videos, pictures and news stories - something different every day - might inspire you?

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interesting and good idea, but not sure I'd want to pay for it (I don't like anything that uses teachers for an income stream)

http://wp.me/p1VP4o-K I made a GRAMMAR GAP FILL using Lingle - have a look and see what you think. It was very easy, the lesson you'll see on this link took me about 15 mins from start (working out how it all works) to finish.

You have to register - but it's free to do so - to get inside here, but once in, there are 3,500 videos from the now defunct Teachers TV.